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"There is nothing Americans can do to save public education right now." -- (link)

Posted by znufrii, silly old man (aka znufrii) Jul 13 '20, 06:15

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https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jul/13/america-schools-coronavirus-covid-19-children (www.theguardian.com)

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Plans here are being announced on Wednesday. I’m so worried. I do not want to go back or send my kid back with cases skyrocketing, but I also need - Herkellys Mulligan Jul 13, 07:21 2
- My hope is that our school says mandatory masks. No mask, you learn remotely. Let the no-mask contingent deal with that themselves. My wish is for - oblique Jul 13, 07:24 1
  - Just the fact that we have a no mask contingent shows we are beneath the lowest of third world countries in this respect, right? -- nm - JackDawson Jul 13, 07:32
Exactly what they want. Education will become a privilege to those that can afford it. -- nm - JaxSean Jul 13, 06:27 1
- They also want an uneducated populace but I don't think this is some master plan to get there. -- nm - Krusty Jul 13, 06:31
(excellent article btw) -- nm - JackDawson Jul 13, 06:25
I can't even imagine. We're already nervous as hell about how the fall is going to go and we basically have zero COVID-19. -- nm - Shaun Jul 13, 06:25 1
- yup -- nm - Beaker Jul 13, 06:26
Our school is announcing plans tomorrow. The parent group has been a shitshow all weekend. The icing on the cake was last night when people were -- (edited) - oblique Jul 13, 06:22 18
- It seems unreasonably cost prohibitive to test everyone within the school system ever 2-3 days. -- nm - Qale Jul 13, 06:42 5
  - It is what Harvard proposed for returning students. Guess we can throw trillions around but can't get funding to test students returning to school... -- nm - oblique Jul 13, 06:53 3
    - Until testing becomes so readily available it’s as on-demand as a lipid screening, I can’t see the entire nation testing its school system that much. -- nm - Qale Jul 13, 07:12
    - Harvard is the #1 richest university in the US. -- nm - loosilu Jul 13, 06:58
    - Airlines are people too oblik (and they donate to politicians) -- nm - JackDawson Jul 13, 06:58
  - Not to mention enough wriggling to shift the earth on its axis -- nm - Baron Burr Jul 13, 06:44
- why are people opposed to testing? (My sister expressed similar refusals with her kids but I couldn't get why) - JackDawson Jul 13, 06:26 11
  - Because if you don't know, it's not your fault, and if you do know, then you have to do something about it. - Reagen Jul 13, 06:35 6
    - Probably this. -- nm - James Bond (aka Igor) Jul 13, 06:46
    - There's a lot of reasons for it but if there's a scarlet letter stigma attached to it I wonder if people have been contributing to it with holier than - JackDawson Jul 13, 06:37 4
      - One of my realizations during this is that people are in general even less knowledgeable about basic science than I thought possible. -- nm - Reagen Jul 13, 06:48 3
        
        You put it nicely, most are... not the sharpest tool in the shed. -- nm - James Bond (aka Igor) Jul 13, 06:54
        
        It's sort of disturbing -- nm - JackDawson Jul 13, 06:49 1
        
        "sort of"? -- nm - znufrii, silly old man Jul 13, 07:07
  - A lot of people think there’s danger in testing. Like risk of exposure, for example. There’s also the conspiracy nuts who think the testing is - mafic Jul 13, 06:32 2
    - The President also wants less testing so less cases reported (that is a US thing only, not sure about Dawson's sister) -- nm - ty97 Jul 13, 06:33 1
      - My suspicion is a bit of the oblik reason: doesn't want to have to quarantine if a positive shows up? She DOES NOT want the kids in the house in the - JackDawson Jul 13, 06:35
  - Becuase people are selfish, ignorant assholes. -- nm - Shaun Jul 13, 06:27
Thankfully there's plenty to do to save big businesses! -- nm - JackDawson Jul 13, 06:17

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